Oklahoma's earthquake threat now equals California's due to man-made temblors, USGS says

[n2doc]

Source: LA Times

The earthquake risk for Oklahoma and southern Kansas is expected to remain significant in 2017, threatening 3 million people with seismic events that can produce damaging shaking, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey forecast released Wednesday.

The seismic risk is forecast to be so high that the chance of damage in Oklahoma and southern Kansas is expected to be similar to that of earthquakes in California, USGS scientists writing in the journal Seismological Research Letters said Wednesday.

In 2016 alone, Oklahoma experienced several damaging earthquakes, including a magnitude 5.0 temblor in November near the central oil town of Cushing — which proclaims itself the “Pipeline Crossroads of the World” — that dislodged unreinforced bricks in chimneys and storefronts, sending them tumbling onto the sidewalks.

Oklahoma also saw the largest quake ever recorded in the state in 2016, when a magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck near Pawnee.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-oklahome-earthquake-20170301-story.html

[keithbvadu2]

1. Easily fixable... Cut funding to USGS

Easily fixable... Cut funding to USGS

GOP has the answer.

People die? Tough luck!

[0rganism]

8. +1 - problem solved! Trump style

unless there's a way to fight earthquakes with our super-shiney military, our new government wants nothing to do with it

[ashling]

10. GREAT Solution !

[Submariner]

2. I hope Senator Snowball's home is destroyed by one of these fracking-induced quakes

while he's in the house.

[gopiscrap]

3. Fucking fracking

[Initech]

4. Exxon Mobil is a bigger threat to the world than Al Qaeda or Isis combined.

[rdking647]

12. and how do you plan on replacing any oil we need w/o fracking?

or are you prepared for a doubling or tripling of gas prices and winter heating bills....

[Brother Buzz]

5. Interesting timeline gif

[SCVDem]

6. There will be NO insurance payments for quakes.

Oklahoma knew the danger and kept fracking.

That is called suicide and is not covered.

Elect smarter people next time,

[Leghorn21]

7. My favorite EQ site - this is the OK page:

http://earthquaketrack.com/p/united-states/oklahoma/recent

[dembotoz]

9. maybe hollywood needs to make an oklahoma earthquake disaster movie

like San Andreas only with acting....

[ashling]

11. A little ditty I just shook out

O-O-Oklahoma where the fracking rumbles with the plains:
Where the waving wheat would sure smell neat
If it’s scent wasn’t drowned out by metha-a-ane
I know I’d belong to the land
If the land didn’t shake me where I sta-a-a-nd
O-O-Oklahoma!
O-O-Oklahoma!

You’re really fracked Oklaho-o-oma!
Oklahoma’s that wa-a-a-a-ay!
O – K – L – A – H – O – C –H – 4
OKLAHOMA ‘ s that way!

[not fooled]

13. Nice!

Should be the official state song

[dalton99a]

14. The threat would be gone if the scientists would quit collecting data.

Silly bunch of people.